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History of site

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The Hawea-Wanaka Substitute Block is a property identified in the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998. The original Hawea-Wanaka Block was not available as settlement redress for Ngai Tahu in 1998, so a substitute block of land was negotiated. This substitute land is known as the Hawea-Wanaka Substitute Block.

The Hawea-Wanaka Substitute Block is to be vested in the descendants of the original owners of the original Hawea-Wanaka block.

SILNA is the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906. This Act awarded blocks of land to approximately 4,000 South Island Maori, but before this process was completed, The SILNA Act was repealed by the Native Land Act 1909.

 

• Objective of the Office of Treaty Settlements (OTS) and Maori Land Court (MLC)

 

The owners of the land need to decide upon the following: 

 

• Land Type

  • Maori Freehold Land or

  • General Land

• Entity

  • Company or

  • Trust (refer below for trust options)

 

In making these decisions the owners need to understand what they want to achieve from the land, be it long term ownership, long-short term development or sale of land. Therefore this document will identify the advantages and disadvantages in terms of timing, costs and estimated returns. This will aid owner the opportunity to determine the option that best their personal position.

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Public Use of the Land  

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For many years the Wanaka Block has been referred to as Sticky Forest and has been extensivley used by the community of Wanaka as a recreational facility.

 

Mountain biking has featured strongly with a large number of tracks and jumps built  by the public.